Olivier Lefebvre has been promoted from executive creative director to president and partner at FF Paris, the creative boutique agency founded by Fred & Farid. This brings the Paris office in line with FF’s bureaus in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and New York, putting an executive from the creative...

In its third major buy of the Sundance Film Festival, Amazon Studios has acquired the world rights for the inspirational comedy "Brittany Runs a Marathon " for $14 million. Deadline first reported the news of the acquisition Wednesday. The film stars Jillian Bell as an aimless 20-something who...

AICP has announced the call for entries for the AICP Post Awards, its revamped and rebranded competition for excellence in the postproduction arts. Formerly the AICE Awards, its categories have been re-imagined with a focus on recognizing standout examples of various crafts and technique in editing...

When CNN gave Chris Cuomo its 9 p.m. ET time slot last June, there was reason to fear it could be a television suicide mission. After all, that hour is where the big dogs roam. Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow are the top two personalities in cable television. They still...

Director Lauren Greenfield--nominated for DGA Awards on the strength of her documentary and commercialmaking (the groundbreaking #LikeAGirl campaign for P&G/Always)--has launched, along with her producing partner Frank Evers, Girl Culture Films, a production company that represents leading...

Cannes Lions has named Swati Bhattacharya, chief creative officer, FCBULKA, as the 2019 See It Be It Ambassador, guiding the participants through the program and leading the discussion around the theme for this year which asks participants to “Invite yourself”. Through the See It Be It initiative,...

This year’s field of DGA Award nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for 2018 consists of a two-time past winner, a helmer with eight career nominations, another with three noms--two for commercials, the other for a feature--a director with a pair of career spot nods, and...

The manga movie "Alita: Battle Angel" has been 20 years in the making, and producer Jon Landau thinks it will finally represent the breakthrough success in Hollywood for a genre which has proved problematic. "I think this is definitely the breakthrough one because of the story that Kishiro wrote,"...

"Bend It Like Beckham" director Gurinder Chadha knows a little bit about being a Bruce Springsteen fan, having seen The Boss at Wembley Stadium in 1984 where she proudly stood atop her chair and sang her heart out to his songs. So when she came across Guardian journalist Sarfraz Manzoor's memoir...